China Bat Caves Need Exploring To Trace Covid Origins: WHO Team Member China Bat Caves Need Exploring To Trace Covid Origins: WHO Team Member Peter Daszak, a zoologist and animal disease expert, said the team in Wuhan had been receiving new information about how the virus, first identified in the city in late 2019, led to a pandemic.
Peter Daszak, a zoologist said there was no evidence to suggest the virus emerged from a lab.
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A member of the World Health Organization-led team searching for clues to the origins of COVID-19 in the central Chinese city of Wuhan said work was needed to try to trace genetic elements of the virus in bat caves.
First vaccines could arrive in A&B this month
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The first doses of Covid-19 vaccines look set to arrive in Antigua and Barbuda within weeks.
The shots will also be delivered to several other Eastern Caribbean countries that signed agreements with the World Health Organization-led COVAX facility. The latter aims to ensure fair and equitable access for every country to potentially life-saving inoculation.
In a written letter to each country’s Health Minister, COVAX officials said vaccines could be expected as soon as mid to late February.
As many as 357,600 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are expected to come to Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines.
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An interim delivery report published yesterday by the COVAX facility, the global vaccine distribution initiative, said it will distribute 1.992 million doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines produced by the Serum Institute of India (SII) to the hermit state by the end of June. Meanwhile, South Korea will be provided with a minimum of 2.7 million doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, the report said, according to the Yonhap news agency.
In total, COVAX will distribute 337 million doses to 145 participating countries - roughly 3.3 percent of their total population.
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China bat caves need exploring in search for COVID-19 origins, WHO team member says
Peter Daszak, a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of COVID-19, uses his mobile phone at a hotel in Wuhan on Feb 3, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Thomas Peter)
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WUHAN, China: A member of the World Health Organization-led team searching for clues to the origins of COVID-19 in the central Chinese city of Wuhan said work was needed to try to trace genetic elements of the virus in bat caves.
Govt to vaccinate 3.5m people in first phase
1.5 lakh registered for vaccination
Staff Correspondent
4th February, 2021 10:05:33
The government has decided to inoculate 3.5 million people instead of 6 million in the first month of vaccination programme due to a lukewarm response to online registration.
The country now has a stock of 7 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, of which the government procured 5 million doses from Serum Institute of India and the rest were gifted by the Indian government.
Two doses of the Covishield vaccine will be given to each vaccine recipient in an eight-week interval.
Prof Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora, additional director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), recently said four lakh doses of the vaccines have been allocated for Dhaka district.